A band that transitioned from 1970s new wavers into 1980s radio rockers will play Sands Bethlehem Event Center, the venue just announced.

Cheap Trick, which had its first hit with “Surrender” in 1978 and the follow-up hits “I Want You to Want Me,” “Dream Police” and “Ain’t That Sands a Shame,” then 10 years later had its biggest hit with “The Flame” and another with a cover of Elvis Presley’s “Don’t Be Cruel,” will play the center Nov. 24.

Tickets, at $49.50 to $99.50, will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 5, at www.sandseventcenter.com or www.livenation.com or by calling 800-745-3000.

The band is on tour opening for Aerosmith – it played Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center on July 21 – but will play the event center on an off night of the tour, between dates Nov. 23 in Atlantic City and Nov. 25 in Columbus, Ohio.

Cheap Trick first hit the charts with “Surrender,” full of new wave imagery with guitarist Rick Nielson playing checker-board designed guitars in a baseball cap with a flipped-up brim, long-haired singer Robin Zander wailing away and balding drummer Bun E. Carlos beating away with a cigarette dangling from his lip.

Starting with its 1977 platinum album “In Color,” the band produced five straight gold or platinum albums through 1982. Its 1979 album “Dream Police” went to No. 6.

But bassist Tom Petersson left the band in 1982, and Cheap Trick didn’t have another Top 40 hit or platinum album until he rejoined in 1988. Cheap Trick then had the platinum album “Lap of Luxury,” which included “The Flame” and “Don’t Be Cruel.”

Its most recent album was 2009’s “The Latest.”

Carlos no longer tours with Cheap Trick. When the band played with Aerosmith in Philadelphia, Neilson's son Dax played drums.

Cheap Trick last played the area at Penn’s Peak near Jim Thorpe in 2003. The band played Allentown’s Airport Hall in 1991 and Allentown Fair in 1978.

JOHN J. MOSER has been around long enough to have seen the original Ramones in a small club in New Jersey, U2 from the fourth row of a theater and Bob Dylan's born-again tours. But he also has the number for All-American Rejects' Nick Wheeler on his cell phone, wrote the first story ever done on Jack's Mannequin and hung out in Wiz Khalifa's hotel room.

OTHER CONTRIBUTORS

JODI DUCKETT: As The Morning Call's assistant features editor responsible for entertainment, she spends a lot of time surveying the music landscape and sizing up the Valley's festivals and club scene. She's no expert, but enjoys it all — especially artists who resonated in her younger years, such as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Tracy Chapman, Santana and Joni Mitchell.

KATHY LAUER-WILLIAMS enjoys all types of music, from roots rock and folk to classical and opera. Music has been a constant backdrop to her life since she first sat on the steps listening to her mother’s Broadway LPs when she was 2. Since becoming a mother herself, she has become well-versed on the growing genre of kindie rock and, with her son in tow, can boast she has seen a majority of the current kid’s performers from Dan Zanes to They Might Be Giants.

STEPHANIE SIGAFOOS: A Jersey native raised in Northeast PA, she was reared in a house littered with 8-tracks, 45s and cassette tapes of The Beatles, Elvis, Meatloaf and Billy Joel. She also grew up on the sounds of Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks and Tim McGraw and can be found traversing the countryside in search of the sounds of a steel guitar. A fan of today's 'new country,' she digs mainstream/country-pop crossovers like Lady Antebellum and Sugarland and other artists that illustrate the genre's diversity.